for UVC Webcams (like the Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000) there is a new driver developing. To make testing it easier i created an ebuild for the driver
and for the uvc viewer application (since uvc devices seem not to be supported very good right now by many webcam applications).

I don't know "webcam", many programs do not really support v4l2, but only the old v4l.

If you wanna try a program that does work with the uvcvideo driver you can either install ekiga or (if that has too many dependencies for you) you can grab the ebuild for luvcview on my homepage. Does it work with those programs?_________________ICQ #81510866 - http://the-gay-bar.com - MSN tante@emptiness.de
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Ekiga does not work with my webcam. Do I need additional software? Where do you get v4l-info etc from? The only app where I can get a picture is kopete but it has wrong colours and does not look very nice...

udevinfo starts with the device the node belongs to and then walks up the
device chain, to print for every device found, all possibly useful attributes
in the udev key format.
Only attributes within one device section may be used together in one rule,
to match the device for which the node will be created.

I used your ebuild for luvcview which worked without problems.
ekiga is version 2.0.2 but IIRC I also tried 2.0.1. I have all USEFLAGS enabled except avahi, debug and gnome. ekgia shows me only Picture as Video Plugin, and StaticPicture and MovingLogo as "Aufnahmegerät" (recording device?).

Anything to compile into the kernel? I compiled Video for Linux (VIDEO_DEV) into the kernel...

I really suppose it's connected to SDL since both programs use that, but I'll have to look at SDL closer to find out what's wrong. Maybe if you asked someone who knows more about ekiga he/she can help you? I never had that problem so far, so I'm kinda out of ideas here. Your camera seems to work correctly though._________________ICQ #81510866 - http://the-gay-bar.com - MSN tante@emptiness.de
Occam's Razor:
-"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem."-

Okay, so looking for other threads of people having problems with Ekiga not detecting any cams might light this issue up a little._________________ICQ #81510866 - http://the-gay-bar.com - MSN tante@emptiness.de
Occam's Razor:
-"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem."-